Ali Kemal Özcan (born 1959)is a Turkish academic and lecturer at the Munzur University in Tunceli.
He is known for his research regarding the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its leader Abdullah Öcalan.
[1] In 1995 he began to study political philosophy at the University of Kent from where he obtained a M.Sc in 1997 during which he went and stayed in Damascus for one month (July 1996), and interviewed Abdullah Ocalan in length.
[4] He began to lecture at the Munzur University in 2010, where he was active in several positions most notably as the head of the Department of Sociology, which he remains.
[4] He was involved in the parliamentary discussion on the peace process between the PKK and Turkey in 2013 and met Öcalan twice in Imrali prison,[4] before the mayoral elections of Istanbul in June 2019 following which he read out a letter in which Öcalan shall have recommended the HDP to remain neutral during the elections.